Serge Schmemann Quotes
Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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O my America! my new-found land.
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A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
